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enCourting App Makers to Unlock Your Car’s Powerful Data Trovehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/537561/courting-app-makers-to-unlock-your-cars-powerful-data-trove/
<p>Startups like Automatic are trying to interest developers in gadgets that plug into your car, hoping to power a new wave of mobile apps.</p><p>As Thejo Kote and Ljuba Miljkovic see it, your car can do a lot more than just get you around town. The data that it’s constantly collecting can also be used to let your smart thermostat know to adjust the temperature because you’re heading home, or to help you log work-related trips for expense reports, or to send a “yo” to a friend when you start your car.</p>Tue, 19 May 2015 12:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman537561 at http://www.technologyreview.comSmall Display Bedevils Some Apple Watch Appshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/537076/small-display-bedevils-some-apple-watch-apps/
<p>The 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch show the device’s promise and pitfalls.</p><p>Nobody needs an Apple Watch, or any kind of smart watch, really; we haven’t quite figured out what to do with these things yet, beyond activity tracking and replicating the alerts you already get on your smartphone. But that isn’t stopping app makers from trying to figure out more things to do with wrist-worn gadgets. There are more than 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch, which started selling this month from Apple’s website (though if you order now, you probably won’t get one until June).</p>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman537076 at http://www.technologyreview.comBroadcast Every Little Dramahttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/536141/broadcast-every-little-drama/
<p>Meerkat and Periscope show how simple, fun, and weird live-streaming can be.</p><p>Like the frequent posture of its cute, furry namesake, a live-streaming video app called <a href="http://meerkatapp.co/" target="0">Meerkat</a> recently got people to stand up and take notice.</p>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:26:00 +0000juniper.friedman536141 at http://www.technologyreview.comHow’s the Weather There? Crowdsourcing App Promises Better Forecastshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/535761/hows-the-weather-there-crowdsourcing-app-promises-better-forecasts/
<p>An app called Sunshine taps into users’ smartphone sensors to provide localized weather predictions.</p><p>An app called <a href="http://www.thesunshine.co/" target="_blank">Sunshine</a> wants you to help it create more accurate, localized weather forecasts.</p>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:09:00 +0000juniper.friedman535761 at http://www.technologyreview.comAn App Inspired by App Overloadhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/535546/an-app-inspired-by-app-overload/
<p>An app called Vurb aims to make it easier to search for stuff to do using a smartphone.</p><p>For the past few years, Bobby Lo has been trying to figure out how to use a smartphone to plan a night out with friends, without shuffling back and forth between apps and Web pages just to make dinner reservations or find movie times.</p>Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman535546 at http://www.technologyreview.comYour iPhone Might Make You a Reality TV Starhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/535156/your-iphone-might-make-you-a-reality-tv-star/
<p>Broadcasting everything your smartphone sees and hears could be the next trend in social media.</p><p>The first time I learned about live streaming was also the first time I realized you could play shuffleboard in Brooklyn, at the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club.</p>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman535156 at http://www.technologyreview.com2014 in Mobile: Wearable Gadgets Galorehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/533691/2014-in-mobile-wearable-gadgets-galore/
<p>Wearable technology finally took off in 2014, although some devices fared better than others.</p><p>In 2014, the hottest theme in mobile technology was the introduction of wearable gadgets that can track everything from seizures to how much sunlight you soak up. Device makers large and small attempted to make wearables that are both functional and fashionable.</p>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman533691 at http://www.technologyreview.comA Simple Way to Search Your Share of the Cloudhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/531656/a-simple-way-to-search-your-share-of-the-cloud/
<p>A company called ClipCard will let you search all your cloud-based stuff at once, even if it’s stored in several places.</p><p>Searching for a photo you’ve stored in Dropbox or a spreadsheet saved in Google Drive is easy, but if you can’t remember which cloud-based service you put something in, finding it can be a lot trickier.</p>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:32:00 +0000juniper.friedman531656 at http://www.technologyreview.comAn Optical Trick Makes Disappearing Messages Harder to Screenshothttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/531521/an-optical-trick-makes-disappearing-messages-harder-to-screenshot/
<p>An app called Yovo uses a clever trick to make it hard to preserve its ephemeral messages.</p><p>A new app called <a href="https://yovo.me/" target="0">Yovo</a> aims to make disappearing messages truly short-lived by foiling a recipient’s attempts to take screenshots.</p>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:35:00 +0000juniper.friedman531521 at http://www.technologyreview.comSaying Hello to Ello, an Ad-Free Facebook Alternative http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531231/saying-hello-to-ello-an-ad-free-facebook-alternative/
<p>A social network avoids ads and elevates design.</p>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman531231 at http://www.technologyreview.com